You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

You no more have the right to risk others by failing to vaccinate than you do by sending your child to school with a hunting knife. Vaccination isn't a private choice but a civic obligation.

I have a one-question language test that people who have lived abroad do better on than those who studied in a classroom. Try my test yourself: In a foreign language you've studied, how do you say 'doorknob'?

It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.